Tuesday, 14 July 2015

The Ethnic Show

What a superb line-up of comedic talent. Hosted by the toweringly tall
awesomely engaging Alonzo Bodden, the
show zoomed in on the hot singular topic of society’s treatment of ethnics.

Alonzo Bodden

The
comedians represented were an Asian Australian, an Italian, a French Canadian
Arab, a Jew, a Nigerian Londoner, and of course Bodden himself an
Afro-American.

Bodden used the audience to start the show by asking individuals their
ethnicity/ background, and then the funny lines came. One of his funniest jokes
was about why White Supremists are called that:he commented that they look like the most unsupreme people in the world,
referring to their potbellies, and drug smoking ways. Bodden also created some
funny Canadian content jokes making fun of Americans and their ignorance of Canada. One
particular crazy moment was when he said the best way to get health care is to be in a car accident because
you get full insurance; a car accident would get you help. He also talked about
the creepy look of guys and called the “rapey” look of guys even worse. Very
funny.

Frank Spadone was the
contingency for comic relief. He was pretty bullet-fast brilliant in his wind
up about controlling Italian mother-in-laws. He launched into imitation mode of
her obsessive directives to him while inside the car and getting out of it,
telling him at every move what to do. Unfortunately, he just couldn’t compare
to the other comedians; their material was contemporary; his old hat.

Frank Spadone

Rachid Badouri is really funny to
watch and his material equally funny to hear. He’s like an elastic band in his
movements and his Parkinson joke was punch-funny appropriate. He’s well known
in the francophone circuit of comedy, and his crossover into the anglo audience
is a true success. Of course, he made some hysterical jokes about hanging out
in school with non Arabs. Students viewed
him as a cultural quirk – a creature from another planet, and so they tried to
trap him with a butterfly net, but things moved up the notch for him with his
coterie of pals: “They eventually let me play superpower games, where one kid
got to be Superman, another Spiderman, and they told me I could be Aladdin –
and even gave me a carpet.” He said he can’t even fly a kite these days because
he’s Arab and that doesn’t work for airports. His jokes got him endlessly high
laughs.

Rachid Badouri

Ronny Chieng
was not a favourite, though his no frills airplane attack had its moments, especially
when he referred to an Asian airline offering return flights at $50. “You can’t
die twice”.

Ronny Chieng

New Yorker, Dan Naturman has a funny whiny voice
that suited his material. He started on marriage and how his friends try to
sell it, but their lack of enthusiasm is evident. “It’s really difficult; you
have to work at it. “He made the car comparison using a monotone voice saying
(paraphrasing here), “Can you imagine selling cars that way? It’s really difficult;
you have to work it using the same words.”

Dan Naturman

Popular comic was Gina Yashere. Her jokes about returning
to her roots, and going back to Nigeria
to check it out were hysterical. She wanted to get out of there as soon as
possible, “They kill you there.” A proud lesbian she did a hysterical take on
her absolute fumbling of the male member, using the long microphone to do it.

Gina Yashere

Ahmed Ahmed

Likewise, one of my
favourites was the star, Ahmed Ahmed;
he was daring and awesome. His recreation of what it’s like to get pulled aside
at airports – almost every time – because of his name – was side splitting. His
brilliant imitation of being pulled into the “brown room” – the place where
everyone of colour is there, including an over-tanned Caucasian was genius. He
launched into a shtick of the Afro-American customs woman who calls high
authorities to report him. (I had the same thing happen to me when I was robbed
in Mexico,
and I was pulled into that very room, and a beady-eyed black woman gave me
nothing but trouble). I swear Ahmed’s imitation of her was exactly a duplicate
of the one I had to deal with. Ahmed also said that she seems to appear at
every customs point.” Do they hologram her? “

His imitation of ISIS propaganda on TV was equally so.His voice and body turned into a great
exaggeration of the murderous thugs. It allowed us to laugh at them – a perfect
example of the benefits of comic relief – we laugh at even the most brutal of groups
and horrendous situations.

The Ethnic Show runs until July 19 at Club Soda, 1225 St-Laurent Blvd.
For reservations, call 514-845-2322 or visit hahaha.com.

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